ON THE 1st day of August,
2001, this matter came before the Three-Judge Court empaneled on July 3, 2001,
by designation of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, pursuant
to ß54.1-3935 of the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, consisting of the Honorable
Joseph E. Spruill, Jr., and the Honorable Frank A. Hoss, Jr., retired Judges
of the Fifteenth and Thirty-First Judicial Circuits, respectively, and by the
Honorable Paul F. Sheridan, Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit and Chief
Judge of the Three-Judge Court.

Seth M. Guggenheim, Assistant Bar
Counsel, appeared on behalf of the Virginia State Bar, and Stephen R. Pickard,
Esquire, appeared on behalf of Respondent, John Carter Morgan, Jr., who was
also present during the proceedings.

WHEREUPON, a hearing was conducted
upon the Rule to Show Cause issued against the Respondent, John Carter Morgan,
Jr., which Rule directed him to appear and to show cause why his license to
practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia should not be further suspended
or revoked.

FOLLOWING the presentation of all
evidence, both by way of stipulation of counsel and testimonial and documentary
evidence presented in open court, and argument on behalf of the Virginia State
Bar and the Respondent by their respective counsel, the Three-Judge Court deliberated,
and made the following findings of fact:

1. The Respondent, John Carter Morgan,
Jr., is an active member of the Virginia State Bar, who is not in good standing.

2. On December 4, 2000, in the Circuit
Court of Fauquier County, Virginia, the Respondent, John Carter Morgan, Jr.,
entered pleas of guilty to, and was convicted of, two felonies: attempted possession
of cocaine (offense date: January 6, 2000), in violation of ß18.2-250; 257 of
the 1950 Code of Virginia, as amended, and possession of cocaine (offense date:
December 15, 1999), in violation of ß18.2-250 of the said Code.

3. That the Respondent's commission
of the felony offense of attempted possession of cocaine involved the Respondent's
attempt to purchase cocaine from his court-appointed client, whom the Respondent
was then defending on unrelated criminal charges.

UPON CONSIDERATION WHEREOF, the
Three-Judge Court found by clear and convincing evidence that Respondent has
committed violations of the following provisions of the Virginia Code of Professional
Responsibility and Rules of Professional Conduct:

DR 1-102. Misconduct.

(A) A lawyer shall not:

(3) Commit a crime or other deliberately
wrongful act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's fitness to practice law.

RULE 1.2 Scope of Representation

(c) A lawyer shall not counsel a
client to engage, or assist a client, in conduct that the lawyer knows is criminal
or fraudulent, but a lawyer may discuss the legal consequences of any proposed
course of conduct with a client and may counsel or assist a client to make a
good faith effort to determine the validity, scope, meaning, or application
of the law.

RULE 8.4 Misconduct

It is professional misconduct for
a lawyer to:

(b) commit a criminal or deliberately
wrongful act that reflects adversely on the lawyer's honesty, trustworthiness
or fitness as a lawyer[.]

AFTER DUE CONSIDERATION of the evidence
and the nature of the ethical misconduct committed by the Respondent, the Three-Judge
Court reached the unanimous decision that Respondent's license to practice law
in the Commonwealth of Virginia should be suspended for a period of three (3)
years, effective January 8, 2001. In electing to suspend, versus revoke, the
Respondent's license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Three-Judge
Court balanced against his ethical misconduct the Respondent's record of public
service, church participation, family situation, and his substantial efforts
to rehabilitate himself from the use of illegal drugs, and the consequences
thereof.

THE THREE-JUDGE COURT was of the
further unanimous opinion that the said suspension of Respondent's license to
practice law should be conditioned upon the fulfillment of certain terms. Upon
hearing the ruling of the Three-Judge Court, delivered from the bench, Counsel
for the parties thereupon stipulated in open court to the inclusion of such
terms in the Order to be rendered in this case so as to remove any jurisdictional
impediment to the Three-Judge Court's imposition of such terms by reason of
the provisions of Part Six, ßIV, 13(E), of the Rules of the Supreme Court of
Virginia. In consideration of the Virginia State Bar's willingness to enter
into such stipulation, the Respondent, by counsel, waived his right to appeal
that portion of the ruling of the Three-Judge Court suspending his license to
practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It is, accordingly,

ORDERED that the license of Respondent,
John Carter Morgan, Jr., to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia be,
and the same hereby is, SUSPENDED for a period of three (3) years, effective
January 8, 2001; and it is further

ORDERED that said suspension be,
and it hereby is, conditioned upon:

1. Respondent's observance, during
the remaining period of suspension of his license to practice law, of those
requirements imposed upon him as conditions of his probation and suspended criminal
sentences for the aforementioned two (2) felony convictions; and

2. Respondent's continued persistent
demonstration, during the remaining period of suspension of his license to practice
law, of an effort at self-help, through regular attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous
and/or continuous and uninterrupted participation in such other program(s) or
regimen(s) appropriate to his rehabilitation; and it is further

ORDERED that in the event Respondent
fails to comply with the aforesaid terms upon which the suspension of his license
to practice law are conditioned, then, and in such event, this Three-Judge Court
shall, as an alternative disposition to such license suspension, revoke the
Respondent's license to practice law in the Commonwealth of Virginia; and it
is further

ORDERED that upon request of Bar
Counsel, made during the remaining period of Respondent's license suspension
through Respondent's undersigned counsel, Respondent shall execute such releases
and authorizations as may be required from time to time for the Virginia State
Bar to determine and/or verify the status of Respondent's compliance with the
terms and conditions imposed by this Three-Judge Court; and it is further

ORDERED that pursuant to Part Six,
ßIV, 13(K)(10) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia, the Clerk of
the Disciplinary System shall assess costs against the Respondent.

It is further ORDERED that four
(4) copies of this Order be certified by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Fauquier
County, Virginia, and be thereafter mailed by said Clerk to the Clerk of the
Disciplinary System of the Virginia State Bar at 707 East Main Street, Suite
1500, Richmond, Virginia 23219-2800, for further service upon the Respondent
and Bar Counsel consistent with the rules and procedures governing the Virginia
State Bar Disciplinary System.